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...terrorists. Phnom Penh Anti-Thai riots rocked Cambodia's capital after false reports that a Thai actress claimed the Angkor Wat temples actually belong to Thailand. Hyderabad An Indian research institute asked Iran to lend it a pair of Asian cheetahs, above, so it could clone the animals, now extinct in India...
...into your living room, where we can sort out what they mean to you. That's what we hope will happen at this conference. We will be talking about everything from human clones and designer babies to biowarfare and genetically modified corn. Will millions of other life forms go extinct before we have a chance to count them, as E.O. Wilson fears? Will artificially intelligent robots inherit the earth, as Ray Kurzweil predicts? And if genetics is a gold mine, as Wall Street promised, where is all the gold...
...can’t think of anything that I like more than everything, which is what dance is for me,” he says while showing off the soon-to-be extinct Rieman Dance Center. He sits with his legs crossed, his hand waving in the air, speaking deliberately and glancing around the familiar dance studio. “What I’m doing right now is dance, with improvised vocal communication...
...Barton is already a bit of a relic. The chief of online travel agency Expedia still pads around his Seattle-area headquarters in his socks and manages to hit the slopes almost every weekend, partying away like it's 1999. But that's O.K., because unlike so many now extinct dotcoms, Expedia is solidly profitable, netting $20 million last quarter as it doubled gross bookings from a year ago, to $1.47 billion--overshadowing the $915 million collected by chief rival, Travelocity. And as Expedia begins this month to offer its smorgasbord of services to the $180 billion U.S. business-travel...
ENDANGERED ECOSYSTEM Currents and winds have carried the slick through coastal fishing grounds and across nearly 200 miles of shoreline. The sludge has coated hundreds of seabirds and closed local fisheries. Now other areas are threatened: shellfish beds and a nature preserve for marine birds, including the near extinct Iberian guillemot...